Page 67 - Jamaica Post Office Guide 1977

66 POST OFFICE GUIDE
GENERAL INFORMATION

RE-DIRECTION

1. By the Public: Unless the sender has forbidden re-direction by a note
that effect on the address side of the article, any postal article, (other than a pare
may be re-directed from its original address to the same addressee at any otl
address in the island without payment of additional postage under the followi
conditions:—
(a) It must be re-posted not later than the day after delivery (Sundays a
Holidays not being counted).
(b) Previous to re-posting it must not have been opened or tampered with
any way.
(c) If an adhesive label is used for the purpose of indicating the new addn
the name of the original addressee must not be obscured.
A re-directed article which does not comply with these conditions will be tre
ed as a freshly posted article and liable to fresh postage.
An inland parcel re-directed under the conditions quoted in (a), (b) and
above may be forwarded without charge only to the same addressee at anot
address served by the same Post Office as the original address. If it is re-direc
to an address in another town in Jamaica fresh postage must be paid. Fi
postage is always required on a Foreign parcel i.e. a parcel which was origin
posted outside the island.
A re-directed overseas parcel or registered article must be handed in a
Post Office counter and a receipt obtained. A re-directed parcel or registc
article posted otherwise will be treated in accordance with regulations cover
irregularly posted articles.

2. By the Post Office: Notices of removal and applications for re-direc
must be signed by the persons to whom any postal packets to be re-directed
addressed and should be sent to the local delivery office serving the old addres
handed to the postman. When possible the printed forms which can be obtai
from any post office should be used and the Post Office may require this to
done in any case.

The Post Office does not undertake to re-direct postal packets which can
re-directed at the place of address. It does not, for example, re-direct po
packets addressed to a person who has temporarily left his house, unless the ho
is left uninhabited: or addressed to clubs, hotels, boarding houses, or lodgil
or addressed to any premises occupied by two or more persons where the let
are delivered by postmen into a common letter box or to a common ag
A notice of re-direction holds good for 3 months.
(General)

The principle of free re-direction does not exempt from additional postag
postal packet which though fully prepaid for the first transmission is re-dir®
to a country to which the postage is higher than that originally prepaid. TW
letter or packet prepaid at the inland rate sent from one place to another in
Island and afterwards re-directed to a place abroad should have additional sta
affixed to it representing the difference between the inland and the foreign rat
postage, otherwise the difference will be charged on delivery.